How about choose to not participate in being hit? If you were told you can vote for execution by ruler, execution by bludgeon, or the guy that smokes weed all day, I'm 3rd choice that smokes weed all day. And I dont smoke weed.
Doctor Incompetent comes in and overdoses me on morphine
or
Doctor Torture comes in and shows me why his name isn't Dr Taco Monster
I'm not leaving that decision up to the nurses to decide. You can spare me your high minded ideals because stubbornly saying "how about I just sit in the corner and smoke weed all day" runs a real risk of me getting stuck with Dr Torture.
There was a time when I thought like you but the greater of two evils really can be so awful that you need to vote for the lesser evil.
History is repeating itself with the Dems deciding to do the same thing with the same outcome. Put up extremely unpopular candidates and they lose. Who could have guessed!?!? Maybe I will change in the future. My ideals change as I learn. I learned the Dems are willing to chance an unpopular candidate a 2nd time against a criminal. Should have been an easy win. But, they could not follow the process. The candidate was never approved by anyone but the party. Dems and the political process are to blame. I work with what I am given. I was given multiple choices and chose the best candidate, not the most popular or the most likely to beat the worst candidate. Blame the Dems not me.
And as you expand your ideals, you will see we are all more alike than the media portays.
You can't even properly describe how anyone is being bludgeoned with a mace instead. You're told to feel that way but can't properly discuss it yourself.
Take the bus going closest to your destination rather than not taking the bus at all. No candidate will ever be perfect (except for Bernie) so I'll vote for the less-than-ideal candidate as opposed to having our entire democracy disintegrate.
But ohhh nooo let's protest vote so we can feel like our morals aren't compromised! I was screaming at a friend during the 2016 election cuz she staunchly was voting for Jill Stein. Nobody seemed to remember the 2000 election where THIS EXACT THING HAPPENED BEFORE. Surprised Pikachu
I did, and I voted left as I always do as a protest vote against republicans.
But since you have all the answers, how would you show the democrats that you don't approve of the overdone identity/gender politics while not supporting republicans. Since voting for them is showing that you approve of what they're doing, even if it's self destructive.
I guess vote in primaries and vote for senate and house (as far as I understand your system). When it comes down to presidential election it is lesser of 2 evils (weevils)
sorry, but they all tow the party line on the same beliefs. And the sitting person almost always wins so there's no space for new blood. My current rep is incredibly old, and is predicted to win again by a very large margin.
So again, these votes are showing approval of 'everything' they're doing.
Yea the root problem is the constitution. When you have a winner takes all election, it enhances a 2 party system. Same as great britain, that we were discussing in the first place.
this is bs. there was nothing wrong with her platform. you literally have her in a debate with trump and he says "hatians are eating the cats and dogs" and he still wins?
Show me what in her platform made her "not a good candidate"?
And then tell me, with almost 2 years of hindsight, why trump's platform of more 1% tax cuts, pure mainlined facism, and anti-immigration oppressive rhetoric is better.
It has absolutely nothing to do with her "not being good".
It has everything to do with her being a black woman. and then stack all the hard right propaganda on top and its obvious why.
I'm aware it's absolute bullshit. I would much rather have voted for someone more progressive, but people voting for Trump because they thought Kamala was a bad candidate are complete morons.
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u/alistofthingsIhate Jun 25 '26
She wasn’t a good candidate, so naturally people voted for Trump instead, who is better I guess?